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closing in on spring planting time...

Discussion in 'Growing Marijuana Outdoors' started by myrrhlynn, Feb 8, 2021.

  1. #1 myrrhlynn, Feb 8, 2021
    Last edited: Feb 8, 2021
    i am at latitude 132.7° (San Diego) with the following length of day for 2021...

    16 March .... 12 hours of daylight
    31 Marc.h ... 12½ hours
    15 April ....... 13 hours
    2 May ......... 13½ hours
    22 May......... 14 hours

    temperature is never a problem, but i'm wondering if anyone would suggest planting (seeds) earlier than mid April? last year i planted about 20 April and harvested ~mid October (probably could have gone another 2 weeks in retrospect).
     
  2. #2 Killerbee4323, Feb 8, 2021
    You can always drop a floodlight out in the middle of the plants to keep em vegging before may.
     
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  3. #3 myrrhlynn, Feb 8, 2021
    i'm not married so i'm not that familiar with high maintenance ... :)

    are you implying it takes 14 hours of daylight to get vegging?
    i'm not sure if that daylight figure includes morning and evening twilight.
     
  4. #4 Killerbee4323, Feb 8, 2021
    Either way. If you need more daylight add a light to keep em growing so when the days get prime length they won't re veg.
     
  5. #5 BrassNwood, Feb 8, 2021
    14.5 is the trigger for cannabis. At 14 they flower and at 15 they veg.
    For southern California I can only depend on June and July to dependably hold a plant in veg.

    Seedlings take roughly a month to become light aware. That is why you can start around May 1st direct planting outside. The further into April you start the higher your odds of the plant pre-flowering. Only experience will show you just how early you can start.

    BNW
     
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  6. #6 myrrhlynn, Feb 8, 2021
    ok... that makes sense. i was probably right on the cusp last year. i planted around the 20th, but those took about 4-5 days to sprout and they were just getting their 2nd and 3rd leaf nodes by the 1st. i couldn't imagine they would start flowering the first few days so including twilight hours i'm sure they were seeing about 14+ hours of light by then.

    my earlier harvest was prompted by most of the leaves yellowing and falling off themselves. it was getting to the point where all the plants had left were the buds and very few leaves.
     
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